Jimmy Reid Quotes

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

Jimmy Reid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: July 9, 1932 - August 10, 2010

Topics

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I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.

Jerry Yang

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Coming from a different perspective on a society is really interesting. I love the Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Phantom Thread,' and that's a version of Britishness and Englishness made by an American.

Andrew Haigh

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I'm not afraid to say I'm competitive.

Andrew Luck

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The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

John Maynard Smith

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My work is not generally in the commercial sector. However, I'm not worried by the commercial sector. I refuse to work in any other way except the way that I work.

Simon McBurney

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By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected.

Robert Zubrin

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I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

Rufus Sewell

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The idea of wanting to do something that's completely natural and then having to repress it is something that I find fascinating.

Michaela Coel

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My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, 'Well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I'm your professor and I'm supposed to be teaching you something.'

Joyce Carol Oates

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If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.

Jason Kander

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You just have to do the things you love, and if you're pursuing the things you love honestly, for the right reasons, then you'll get what you want.

Jason Ralph

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